Sidetone correction winding in telephone receiver



Dec. 26, 1950 G. DAL MONTE 2,535,903

SIDETONE CORRECTION WINDING IN TELEPHONE RECEIVER Filed Sept, 27, 1948Patented Dec. 26, 1950 SIDETONE CORRECTION WINDING IN TELEPHONE RECEIVERGiorgio Dal Monte, Milan, Italy, assignor to Ofiicine LombardeApparecchi di Precisione O. L. A. P. della Siemens Societa per Azioni,Milano, Italy, a corporation of Italy Application September 27, 1948,Serial No. 51,403 In Italy October 2, 1947 2 Claims. 1

In the circuits used up to now with common battery and automatic commonbattery telephone sets, side-tone correction is attained in a knownmanner by means of an induction coil which provides for annulling theinfluence of the variable currents generated in the microphone andacting upon the receiver of the same set.

It is the object of the present invention to attain the same resultwithout having recourse to a purposing induction coil.

To this end, the constitution of the receiver has been modified in sucha manner as to enable it to provide by itself for correcting thesidetone.

Present day receivers comprise, as is known, a permanent magnet and awinding which if run through by voice currents varies the fiux caused bysaid magnet, and thus translates the current variations into mechanicalvibrations of a lamina interposed in the magnetic circuit.

In the telephone set according to the present invention, on the magneticcircuit of the receiver there are arranged two distinct windings whichare connected in such a manner that the magnetic effects produced bythem are concordant for voice currents coming from the line anddiscordant for those generated by the microphone; therefore, thereceiver is made insensitive in itself to voice currents generated bythe microphone.

The accompanying drawing shows a simplified diagram of a telephone setaccording to the invention.

References a, b designate the two wires of the line L, T is the receiverwith the two windings I and II, M is the microphone and R is a resistor.

For the sake of s mplicity, the windings I and II of the receiver T areat first supposed to be perfectly equal to each other. The voicecurrents coming from the line L fiow at a certain moment through thefollowing circuit: wire a, winding I of receiver T (points l2),microphone M and, in parallel, winding II of receiver T (points 2-3)resistor R, wire I). The share of variable current flowing in thewinding II of the receiver has an effect concordant with the effect ofthe current fiowing in the winding I; therefore, the fluxes generated bythe two windings sum up and the receiver translates the currents comingfrom the line into sounds. On the contrary, under local speech, themicrophone M is to be considered as the source of voice currents; inthis case, the variable current flows at a certain moment through thefollowing circuit: microphone M, winding I of receiver T (points 2-!wires a, b and, in parallel. winding II of receiver T (points 2-3),resistor R, micro hone M.

If the windings I and II of T are supposed to be equal to each other andres stance R is supposed to correspond to the line imcedence, thevariable currents flowing through said windings are equal to each otherin value and discordant from each other in efiect; therefore, the fluxesgenerated by them annul each other at every instant. The lamina of thereceiver T is in this case subjected only to the constant flux of thepermanent magnet and no sound is heard for the variable currentsgenerated in the microphone. It is obvious that the two windings I andII need not be equal to each other; in fact, for operation sufiices toattain the equality of the fluxes generated by them in the case of voicecurrents coming from the microphone M. To this purpose, to the ratiobetween the number of turns of the two windings there is to correspondsuch a ratio between the values of line impedance and resistance R, asto make the ampere-turns in the two windings equal to each other.

All present constructive forms of telephone receivers are apt to embodythe new receiver; it is necessary only to add to them a second winding(II) and a third external electric connection.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by United StatesLetters Patent is:

1. In a telephone set comprising a microphone and a receiver, twomagnetically coupled field windings included in said receiver, one ofsaid windings being series connected with said microphone across theline and the other of said windings being para lel connected across said:microphone and having one terminal connected to the lead connectingsaid first mentioned winding to said microphone, the sense of winding ofsaid windings being such that the magnetic effects produced by them areconcordant for voice currents coming from the line.

2. In a telephone set compr sing a microphone, a receiver and anauxiliary resistor, two magnetically coupled field windings included insaid receiver, one of said windings being series connected with saidmicrophone across the line and the other of said windings forming withsaid resistor a series combination which is parallel connected acrosssaid microphone and having one terminal connected to the lead connectingsaid first mentioned wind ng to said microphone, the resistance value ofsaid resistor being equal to the line impedance multiplied by the ratiobetween the number of turns of said two windings.

GIORGIO DAL MONTE.

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